There is a new love in my life. Meet Native & Co, an independent homeware store specialising in handcrafted products from Japan and Taiwan. Until now, I think that Japanese and Taiwanese homewares have been misrepresented here in the UK. Aside from Muji which to me conjures up stationery and perspex office storage, for the […] Read more…

I wasn’t so much impatient for summer for the sun and warmth as I was for the new collections coming to IKEA next month. Sheeeeeeeesh they are killing it. You are not ready for this. Firstly, I just want to take a moment to jump up on the table and do a proper “all hail […] Read more…

Maybe it’s part of maturing and growing into a style that you’re comfortable with, but these days I just don’t want the fuss. Do you feel the same? Perhaps it has something to do with early childhood or later in my teens, helping my father (a Master Goldsmith) in his shop on Saturdays surrounded by […] Read more…

A few weeks back I spent a jaw slackeningly relaxing evening with the Soak&Sleep team (remember this post?) at boutique hotel Artist Residence. During the course of the night we experienced a bespoke pillow consultation – a unique service S&S can provide to help you get over your pillow rut based on your sleeping habits. […] Read more…

I need to get something off my chest in a not-so-glossy, perfectly presented and styled within an inch of its life kind of way. This is a post I wasn’t sure about publishing, because it’s not a glowingly positive one, there aren’t any words of wisdom or top five tips today, I think above all, […] Read more…

Please let me just explain that when I discovered the draw-droppingly gorgeous Second Skin Collection, I could’ve cried. I was having a wander over on one of my favourite online home decor and style sites, Studio Oink – do you know them? and stopped in my tracks. Textured tableware – a stylist’s dream, oh my. It’s […] Read more…

It’s difficult to find impeccably well made modular furniture these days that can put its dukes up to the systems that revolutionised modern living in the mid-century era. Sure, there will always be the flat-pack, but if you’re looking for solid, reliable and timeless, not so much. So I had my head turned with this […] Read more…

For the past year I’ve been a very fortunate Beta member of new online interiors community, at{mine}. Introduced to the site by my good friend Igor Josif of Happy Interior blog, I jumped at the chance to be a part of it as it developed through the early days with a feeling that this was […] Read more…